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Food Allergens: assessing the risk to consumers
Food Allergens: assessing the risk to consumers
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Food Allergens: assessing the risk to consumers – an update

9 December 2015 | By René Crevel, Unilever Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre, Bedford, UK

Managing allergens in a manner that minimises the risk to allergic consumers while maximising their choices, as well as ensuring the overall sustainability of food production processes remains the subject of considerable work. The last three years have witnessed developments in areas as diverse as regulation, hazard characterisation and risk…

Listeria monocytogenes – Developments in epidemiology and laboratory testing by MALDI-TOF
Listeria monocytogenes – Developments in epidemiology and laboratory testing by MALDI-TOF
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MALDI-TOF – Developments in epidemiology and laboratory testing for listeria monocytogenes

9 December 2015 | By Matteo Capocefalo, Laboratory Manager, ALcontrol Laboratories, UK / K. Clive Thompson, Chief Scientist, ALcontrol Laboratories, UK / J. Andrew Hudson, Head Microbiologist, Fera Science Limited, UK

Listeriosis remains a prominent foodborne disease, not because of the number of cases but because of the high case fatality rate. In recent years the foods involved in outbreaks of listeriosis seem to have diversified and the demographics of cases show a distinct trend. Testing for the organism in food…

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KHS’ 1-litre PET milk bottle wins award

18 November 2015 | By Victoria White

KHS has won a World Beverage Innovation Award - a prize awarded for innovative designs and products as well as outstanding quality in the beverage industry...

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Stepping up to the war on food waste

10 November 2015 | By Victoria White

Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, addresses some of the issues highlighted by a recent documentary looking at food waste in the UK...